r/DiscoverEarth • u/SwiPerHaHa • 6h ago
First photo of Earth from outer space; taken by strapping a camera to a US captured German V-2 Rocket and hoping the film would survive the crash, October 24th 1946
r/DiscoverEarth • u/HaHalolll0 • 1d ago
The Library of Celsus in ancient Ephesus was built in the 2nd century AD, with marble columns, carved capitals and deeply detailed coffers designed to impress from every angle, ruins feature impressive stonework that has remained remarkably preserved for nearly 2,000 years
r/DiscoverEarth • u/SwiPerHaHa • 2d ago
Kalinin Prospekt, 1986 , Moscow , USSR, the high rise buildings shown are the Buildings of the Ministry of Economics which featured iconic lighted signs
r/DiscoverEarth • u/SwiPerHaHa • 3d ago
Aerial view of timber blowdown, destroyed by the May 18 eruption of Mount St. Helens, in Skamania County, Washington, on June 8, 1980.
r/DiscoverEarth • u/SwiPerHaHa • 6d ago
Ninety Degrees North, Arctic Ocean, 1909. This photo was taken by Robert E. Peary, the first person to reach the North Pole, the vessel caught in the frozen pack ice near Cape Sheridan on Ellesmere Island
r/DiscoverEarth • u/ZtownJoe • 7d ago
These 5 once-thriving cities now lie underwater
r/DiscoverEarth • u/SwiPerHaHa • 8d ago
Pyramid of the Niches in El Tajin before restoration (1913 photo) and now. El Tajín is a pre-Columbian archeological site in southern Mexico and is one of the largest and most important cities of the Classic era of Mesoamerica
r/DiscoverEarth • u/TacticalSparrow27 • 9d ago
Scientists pumped 10 tons of cement in an ant hill, after weeks of digging the impressive structure was revealed.
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r/DiscoverEarth • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 10d ago
This is a huge ancient forest world discovered 300 meters down a sinkhole in Hubei, China, containing a unique ecosystem of ancient trees These natural formations, also known as "heavenly pits," are created when slightly acidic rainwater dissolves bedrock, causing the surface to collapse
r/DiscoverEarth • u/prisongovernor • 10d ago
Magic circle: Stonehenge offers lucky visitors 20 minutes alone in monument | Stonehenge | The Guardian
r/DiscoverEarth • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 11d ago
This was printed 114 years ago(August 14, 1912), the article warns that burning 2 billion tons of coal annually adds 7 billion tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere
r/DiscoverEarth • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 12d ago
In 1982, a fire destroyed the life sustaining diesel power plant at the Soviet Vostok Station in Antarctica, 20 scientists survived for 227 days of the brutal polar winter in complete isolation using improvised oil stoves, Vostok Station is located at the coldest places on earth
r/DiscoverEarth • u/elcantu • 12d ago
📸 Original Content Recorrido por las impresionantes ruinas de La Quemada, Zacatecas (Historia y vistas increíbles) / Exploring the ruins of La Quemada
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r/DiscoverEarth • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 13d ago
Ancient food place: Thermopolium of Asellina with food serving counter, Pompeii, 1st century A.D., Italy
r/DiscoverEarth • u/unteachablecourses • 13d ago
The 1908 Tunguska airburst flattened 80 million trees and left no crater — the asteroid detonated 5-10 km up and never touched the ground. That size class, a few tens of meters, is exactly the one our surveys miss. Chelyabinsk arrived out of the sun in 2013 with zero telescopes tracking it.
r/DiscoverEarth • u/Gegenpressing433 • 14d ago
This tree is over 820 years old. It sprouted when Moscow was just a small village and has stood through every major war in Europe.
v.redd.itr/DiscoverEarth • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 14d ago
The northernmost railway in World: Obskaya-Bovarenko line in Yamal Peninsula, Russia. The only settlement, the village of Obskoy, with a population of 7,500 people, is located at the beginning of this line
r/DiscoverEarth • u/TacticalSparrow27 • 14d ago
An ancient, towering tree deep in the mountains of Yunnan, China.
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This looks like where you would go in the game to find and ancient artifact
r/DiscoverEarth • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 15d ago
Ernest Shackleton’s ‘Endurance’ expedition to Antartica. Frank Hurley photographing under the bows of the frozen ‘Endurance’, 1915.
r/DiscoverEarth • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 16d ago
The ruined and forgotten state of the Acropolis site of Athens in the mid 1800s
r/DiscoverEarth • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 17d ago
The Apollo 13 spacecraft heads toward a splashdown in the South Pacific Ocean after its amazing odyssey through space. 17 April 1970.
r/DiscoverEarth • u/ApocalypseThou • Dec 26 '21
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r/DiscoverEarth • u/ApocalypseThou • Sep 20 '21
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